Network Function Virtualization – The Opportunity for OpenStack and Open Source
This week’s launch of OPNFV is a good opportunity to think about a simmering debate in the OpenStack developer community for a while now – what exactly does NFV have to do with OpenStack, and is it a good thing? Follow Boad Member Mark McLoughlin‘s journey around NFV.
#1 OpenStack contributor: all of us
Thierry Carrez celebrates every little contribution gone into OpenStack. “It doesn’t matter who is #1, it matters that we all can contribute, and that we all do contribute. It matters that we keep on making sure everyone can easily contribute. That’s what’s really important, and I wish we all were celebrating that.”
OpenStack Havana End of Upstream Support Lifetime
The OpenStack Havana 2013.2.4 integrated point release[1] last Tuesday, September 23, marks the end of stable support for OpenStack Havana.
The Road To Paris 2014 – Deadlines and Resources
During the Paris Summit there will be a working session for the Women of OpenStack to frame up more defined goals and line out a blueprint for the group moving forward. We encourage all women in the community to complete this very short survey to provide input for the group.
- Request an invitation letter for VISA
- Reserve hotel rooms
- Upstream Training in Paris: details and signup form (use the waiting list, we go through it)
- The official Schedule for the Paris Summit is available
Relevant Conversations
- A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Summit
- The problem space in the big tent
- On layers
- Answering the existential question in OpenStack
Tips ‘n Tricks
- By Adalberto Medeiros: Creating your own CI Environment for OpenStack – Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
- By Daniel P. Berrangé: History of APIs for spawning processes in libvirt without involving the shell and Usage of the libvirt virCommand APIs for process spawning
- By Adam Young: Multiple Signers and Wherein our hero attempts to build his own OpenStack Keystone RPMs
- By Yves Gwenael: Site to Site OpenVPN in an OpenContrail subnet
- By dmsimard: S3QL, a filesystem over HTTP with Openstack Swift and Finding the right Openstack provider (or how to use the OpenStack Marketplace)
- By Priti_Desai: How to configure and run Tempest for testing OpenStack Keystone Identity V3 API?
- By Ben Nemec: Debugging Syntax and Import Errors in OpenStack Unit Tests
- By Stephane Combaudon: MySQL & OpenStack: How to overcome issues as your dataset grows
- By 10: Post #3: Replication and Clustering – A Look ahead
- By Lars Kellogg-Stedman: Integrating custom code with Nova using hooks
Security Advisories and Notices
- Nova VMware driver still leaks rescued images (CVE-2014-3608)
- Cinder-volume host data leak to vm instance (CVE-2014-3641)
- Admin-only network attributes may be reset to defaults by non-privileged users (CVE-2014-6414)
- [OSSN 0030] Bash ‘shellshock’ bug can lead to code injection vulnerability
- [OSSN 0029] Neutron FWaaS rules lack port restrictions when using protocol ‘any’
- [OSSN 0028] Nova leaks compute host SMBIOS serial number to guests
Upcoming Events
- Gartner Symposium/ITexpo Oct 05 – 09, 2014 – Orlando, FL Details
- Telco Cloud World Forum Oct 07 – 09, 2014 – Dallas, TX Details
- Network Functions Virtualization Oct 07, 2014 – Paris, FR Details
- CloudOpen / LinuxCon Europe Oct 13 – 15, 2014 – Düsseldorf, Germany Details
- Futurecom Oct 13 – 16, 2014 – Sao Paolo, Brazil Details
- Colorado Meetup – CEPH Oct 14, 2014 – Fort Collins, CO, US Details
- ITPro Expo Oct 15 – 17, 2014 – Tokyo, Japan Details
- Rakuten Technology Conference Oct 25, 2014 – Tokyo, Japan Details
- Japan OpenStack User Group Meetup Oct 27, 2014 – Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP Details
- Open World Forum Oct 30 – Nov 01, 2014 – Paris, France Details
- OpenStack Summit November 2014 Nov 03 – 07, 2014 – Paris, France Details
- USENIX LISA Nov 09 – 14, 2014 – Seattle, WA Details
- Japan OpenStack User Group Meetup Dec 01, 2014 – Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP Details
- Gartner Data Center Conference Dec 02 – 05, 2014 – Las Vegas, NV Details
Other News
- Free passes to CloudOpen EU Dusseldorf available for Booth Volunteers
- Improving the content of OpenStack wiki
- OpenStack Upstream Training challenges
- Telcos Mobilizing to Drive NFV Adoption
- OpenStack Juno Mid-Cycle Policy Summit
- python-congressclient 1.0.0 release!
- OpenStack Juno: Continuing Enterprise Maturity
- Blueprints implemented in Nova during Juno
- OpenStack 2014.1.3 released
- Release of python-cinderclient 1.1.1
- OpenStack Project Meeting: Summary and full logs.
Got Answers?
Ask OpenStack is the go-to destination for OpenStack users. Interesting questions waiting for answers:
- Installing Devstack on Xenserver triggers a urllib3.connectionpool warning, followed by a 409 Conflict: Cannot upload to an unqueued image.
- Failed to notify nova on events – Specified RPC version cap, 3.0, is too low. Needs to be higher than 3.23.
- How to add members to image in multi-domain cloud
- Why is openvswitch forwarding arp packets between external and internal bridge?
- Is there a utility to clean up orphaned resources?
- Any options to migrate from xenserver/cloudstack to kvm/openstack?
- firewall semantics and connection tracking in Neutron
- Is there a utility to clean up orphaned resources?
- How to assign the same names to VMs in VCenter and Nova?
- How to enable two users to read and write a Swift container with tempauth ACL?
Welcome New Reviewers, Developers and Core Reviewers
Welcome new core reviewers: Andreas Jaeger, Anita Kuno and Sean Dague to project-config-core, James Carey to oslo-i18n-core
OpenStack Reactions
After five days at the summit
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